A Canadian & NZ Co-lab Thriller TV series. Writer Sarah-Kate Lynch. Maggie and Tom Cabbott move to the town of Pelorus to escape the oppressive influence of Tom’s family. But when he disappears, unsettling facts about Tom soon come to…
Producers: GFC films Television series. A new TV series from writer Glenn Standring based on his movie The Dead Lands (2014). In ancient Maori times, an undead warrior and a young tribeswoman team up to find a way to stop the evil…
Vai is a portmanteau feature film made by nine female Pacific filmmakers, filmed in seven different Pacific countries: Fiji, Tonga, Solomon Islands, Kuki Airani (Cook Islands), Samoa, Niue and Aotearoa (New Zealand). It is about the journey of Vai, played by a different indigenous…
A War Story is based on the dramatic events leading up and subsequent to the interview conducted in 1997 by New Zealand journalist Peter Arnett with Osama bin Laden. To arrange the interview Arnett met with bin Laden’s Lieutenants in…
Filmed on location in Fiji. Missionary John H. Groberg returns to Tonga in the 1960s with his wife and their five young daughters. When their sixth child is born with a serious illness, the Grobergs face their ultimate test of…
Now screening on Whakaata Māori but gained a huge audience on Digital platforms, Ahikāroa is the Māori bilingual series following the trials and tribulations of a group of mates living in Tāmaki. http://www.maoritelevision.com/tv/shows/ahikaroa/S01E001/ahikaroa-series-1-episode-1 https://www.ahikaroa.nz/
Directed by Michael Bennett who also wrote the book. This dramatised version of Teina’s story will break your heart. I’ve just watched the film on the big screen with the crew who couldn’t make it to the first screening a…
Directed by Peter Burger. This feature tells the story of one man’s courage, his murder and the change in New Zealand’s witness laws that was prompted by his actions. Based on the true story of Chris Crean, who took a stand…
This is the reason I have been absent from Casting most of the last two years. I hope you enjoy my journey shared with whanau and friends. Direct video link: What are we going to do about Mum? Maori TV…
Kia Ora Koutou! There is such an amazing amount of talent around Aotearoa, Te Moana Nui a Kiwa & beyond! The online application form has closed. We even left it open for just a little longer, but as you can…
**UPDATE: Online applications have closed**
Moana, a comedy-adventure set 2,000 years ago in Oceania is about a spirited teenager who learns that the future of her people is in jeopardy. Along with a loveable pot belly pig and the legendary hero, Māui. Moana searches for…
Inspired by true events, first-hand accounts and employing actual newsreel footage, this drama follows the aftermath of the Earthquakes that befell New Zealand’s Christchurch between 2010 and 2011, telling a universal story of family, hope and triumph against the odds.…
Variously praised as a major step forward in indigenous cinema, attacked for overambition, and little screened, Te Rua marked Barry Barclay’s impassioned follow-up to Ngati. This story of stolen Māori carvings in a Berlin museum sees Barclay plunging into issues of control of…
Firstly congratulations to Stan Walker on his memorable meeting with Beyonce during her recent tour here. Stan is a humble young man who represented his people well. He has also done us proud in his acting debut as Turei in…
White Lies submitted for the Oscars as New Zealand’s Best Foreign Language entry. It’s about the nature of identity: those who deny it and those who strive to protect it. Paraiti (Whirimako Black) is a medicine woman. She is the healer…
Mount Zion. starring Stan Walker as Turei. His family are hard-working potato farm workers in rural New Zealand. A talented musician, Turei dreams of his band being the support act for Bob Marley’s 1979 tour. But it’s a dream that…
Twenty years have passed since Billy T James died at the age of 42, and he still manages to make us laugh. Tonight on TV ONE, the story of New Zealand’s best loved entertainer is being told in the Sunday…
‘Risk. Risk anything. Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.’ – Katherine Mansfield The true story of nineteen year old Katherine Mansfield’s…
It’s fifty years since Shelly Gentry disappeared and 50’s one of those numbers that seem to mean something. People celebrate fifty. Maybe islands do too – so watch out! In pre-European New Zealand, the tiny Island of Kaitangata was the…